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SpaceX Strikes Deal With Coding Startup Cursor For $60 Billion (developers.slashdot.org)
1 day ago Startup SpaceX

Sources: following Manus probe, Chinese authorities ordered at least one other prominent AI startup, MiroMind, not to send talent and research out of China (www.washingtonpost.com)
1 day ago China Startup AI

Nigerian drone startup Terra Industries raised $34M from Joe Lonsdale, Lux Capital, and others and is opening its first international factory in Accra, Ghana (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Startup Drone Nigeria

Shuttered Startups Are Selling Old Slack Chats, Emails To AI Companies (yro.slashdot.org)
4 days ago Startup AI Slack

Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4B across 34 deals through April 15, up from $5.9B raised across 99 investments globally in all of 2025 (news.crunchbase.com)
5 days ago Startup

A profile of wealth manager Iconiq, which, sources say, has $100B AUM, with $26B specifically for VC investing; Iconiq invested $3B into AI startups in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
5 days ago Startup AI

AI labs are buying Slack, Jira, and email archives from defunct startups to build “reinforcement learning gyms” and train AI agents in simulated workplaces (www.forbes.com)
6 days ago Startup AI Slack

The UK unveils Sovereign AI, a £500M fund to invest in domestic AI startups, starting with Callosum, which builds software to help different chips work together (www.wired.com)
6 days ago Startup AI

Financial services startup Slash, which is building an AI agent, raised $100M led by Ribbit at a $1.4B valuation and reports nearly $300M in annualized revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
6 days ago Startup AI

Former Mercor staffers describe “operational mishaps” at the $10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration (www.forbes.com)
7 days ago Korea Startup

Filings: Caterpillar acquires self-driving electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor's assets, after it raised $200M+ and struggled to pivot to software services (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Startup Asset

AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest $60M in London-based self-driving tech startup Wayve as part of an extension to its $1.2B Series D, announced in February (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Startup London AMD

Accel raised $5B, including a $4B Leaders fund, focused on writing large checks to late-stage startups globally, and a $650M sidecar fund, taking AUM to $36B (www.bloomberg.com)
7 days ago Startup

Asia's startup funding rose 93% YoY to $27.4B in Q1, the highest quarterly total in 3+ years, with Chinese startups raising $16.5B and Indian startups $3.8B (news.crunchbase.com)
8 days ago China India Asia Startup

Glydways, a robocar startup backed by Sam Altman, Khosla, and others, says it is in talks to raise $250M at a $1B+ valuation, following a ~$170M Series C (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Startup

Sources: cloud-computing startup Fluidstack is in talks to raise ~$1B at an $18B valuation, up from $7.5B when it raised money earlier in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Startup

Polymarket is auditing its Builders Program, which gives up to $2.5M in grants, after concerns that some participating startups are facilitating insider trading (www.theinformation.com)
8 days ago Startup

A profile of Jeffrey Yan and his startup Hyperliquid, a $10B crypto exchange that never took VC money and generated $900M+ in profit in 2025 with 11 employees (colossus.com)
9 days ago Startup

OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for an undisclosed sum; Hiro stops new signups, will shut down on April 20 and delete all data on May 13 (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Startup

Sources: data labeling startup Handshake's gross annualized revenue hit ~$1B, vs. $550M in January; Mercor hit a $1B+ gross annualized revenue pace this year (www.theinformation.com)
9 days ago Startup

Neuroscientist's AI-Powered Startup Aims To Transform Human Cognition With Perfect, Infinite Memory (hardware.slashdot.org)
10 days ago Startup AI

Neuroscientist' AI-Powered Startup AIms To Transform Human Cognition With Perfect, Infinite Memory (hardware.slashdot.org)
10 days ago Startup AI

Trump hails Palantir's “great war fighting capabilities”, days after short seller Michael Burry said the company will lose to AI startups; PLTR is down ~25% YTD (www.ft.com)
12 days ago Trump Startup AI

How Black Forest Labs, a 70-person startup based in Germany, became a top competitor in AI image generation; sources: it recently declined to partner with xAI (www.wired.com)
13 days ago Germany Startup AI

A look at Neo, a VC firm that made early bets on startups including Kalshi and Cursor, pushing the value of its first two funds far above industry averages (www.wsj.com)
14 days ago Startup

Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, is unreliable because it lacks SEC definitions and can be inflated (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Startup AI

Sources: AI music startup Suno's licensing talks with UMG and Sony have stalled; labels argue that AI tools like Suno rely on human-made music and should pay (www.ft.com)
16 days ago Startup AI Sony

A look at Catches and other startups that are offering AI tools to let shoppers visualize fit and style before buying clothes, aiming to curb online returns (www.cnbc.com)
16 days ago Startup AI

Filing: Broadcom agrees to produce future versions of Google's TPUs and expands its Anthropic deal to give the startup access to ~3.5 GW of computing capacity (www.cnbc.com)
16 days ago Google Startup

Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus raised $505M led by Coatue at a $5.5B valuation, bringing its funding raised in the last six months to $1.35B (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago Australia Startup AI

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